{"id":5804,"date":"2016-04-23T21:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T01:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2016-04-24T06:19:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T10:19:17","slug":"pochuck-mountain-state-forest-42316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5804","title":{"rendered":"Pochuck Mountain State Forest, 4\/23\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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~Louisiana Waterthrush perched at Pochuck Mountain State Forest, 4\/23\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I met Linda Scrima out at Pochuck Mountain State Forest<\/a> early on this cloudy morning. In the beginning of the trail, it was not very birdy, but we continued further up the mountain until we got to a small pond and that’s where things got interesting. Our first good bird was my FOY BLUE-HEADED VIREO<\/strong>. Shortly afterwards, we located another personal FOY, a BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER<\/strong>. As we worked our way around the pond, I heard a call that sort of sounded familiar but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Linda, however knew it immediately – it was a\u00a0LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH<\/strong>. We followed the call, located the bird, and got fabulous looks and pretty decent photos, especially considering the poor lighting. We ended up having a good morning at Pochuck; we hiked probably about 4 miles and had 28 species.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, we walked the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge’s Liberty Loop. Highlights included\u00a0our second Louisiana Waterthrush of the day,\u00a0which was located by Linda on the west side of the loop, just off the trail. We also did pretty well with shorebirds with several Killdeer, 2 Greater Yellowlegs (FOY), 1 Lesser Yellowlegs (FOY), and a pair of Wilson’s Snipe. All in all, a good day with some good\u00a0year birds\u00a0for both of us.<\/p>\n

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~This was exciting to me… Black-and-white Warbler at Pochuck Mountain SF, 4\/23\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~My personal FOY Blue-headed Vireo, Pochuck Mountain SF, 4\/23\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~Another shot of the Louisiana Waterthrush, Pochuck Mountain SF, 4\/23\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~This was Linda’s first good look at an Eastern Towhee this year, Pochuck Mountain SF, 4\/23\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I met Linda Scrima out at Pochuck Mountain State Forest early on this cloudy morning. In the beginning of the trail, it was not very birdy, but we continued further up the mountain until we got to a small pond and that’s where things got interesting. Our first good bird was my FOY BLUE-HEADED VIREO. … Continue reading “Pochuck Mountain State Forest, 4\/23\/16”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-songbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1vC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5816,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}